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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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C11.1.1 Ability to control default show/hide of Properties pane

Default option when creating a new report is Show properties pane. Users are getting confused as why it is blank. Ability to control default show/hide of Properties pane will help entire user population.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

CA Security View for Administrators

There should be an easy way for a CA Administrator to review security for users or groups. At the moment, we can't select a user and see what their membership is. This would also be useful to review what membership a group has to other groups.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Font Options text in Bullet Charts

Working on creating a dashboard, I am using a bullet chart. I have an Actual bar and a Target. Then I have it repeated (rows). I find that I can't change the text color on the Row text, it's black. I also don't see where I can customize the color ...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Set Dashboard Text Items and Visualization Titles to Reflect Parameters

In report studio, a text item can be set to be equal to the value of a parameter, allowing titles to show what that page/visualization/table is being filtered by. For example, if there is a filter by state, and the current filter is on Ohio, the t...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow alt text for brandImage in theme customization.

The Cognos Analytics theme allows administrators to customize the text and images of the welcome page using brandText and brandImage. The brandImage contains the organization name and is very clear for visually acute users. To accommodate the visu...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Extend Role-based access control to data columns

We are facing the need to limit access to certain data columns/fields in LSF Explorer for certain roles. In our environment a few different teams will make use of the reporting capabilities of LSF Explorer in different scopes. Nevertheless, LSF Ex...
about 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 2 Not under consideration

Add possibility to specify uid/gid for db2instance owner in container

It would be beneficial to be able to specify uid/gid for db2instance in container. Example: DB2INSTANCE_UID (default ...) is to specify the uid of the Db2 instance owner DB2INSTANCE_GID (default ...) is to specify the gid of the Db2 instance owner...
over 1 year ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Support for PostgresSQL

Many organisations use PostgresSQL databases, it would be good if SPSS Statistics had official support for this datasource.
over 1 year ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Direct folder creation feature

Direct folder creation feature should be added back
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 1 Not under consideration

Sandbox Non-commit feature and sharing of Sandbox

We have come across the business requirement as follows: Request to have these features be added to the Planning Analytics tool. 1. Can we restrict user to do only scenario planning in the sandbox but can't update (commit) the base instance? 2. Is...
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration